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0 pointswtsnz11mo ago0 comments

Elixir + Phoenix is amazing. It's one self-contained stack. Just Elixir processes (and Postgres) which takes care of everything other ecosystems farm out to extra services. Background jobs, real-time channels, and even hot-code deployments run natively within the same BEAM runtime.

Working with this with a small team with one simple stack is a breath of fresh air in today's world.

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chamomeal11mo ago

Wow that does sound pretty sick.

I’ve always heard awesome things about elixir/beam but I only have so much love in my heart for languages without good static types. Right now that love goes to clojure!

I’ve been hearing some buzz about static types landing in elixir, and it’s definitely piquing my interest. This comment of yours has fully sold me though!

cultofmetatron10mo ago

> Right now that love goes to clojure!

having used both, elixir feels a lot like clojure semantics with a ruby like syntax. the big advantage of elixir is the erlang vm. if you want a vm that heavily prioritizes parallelism and network programming, give elixir a try. otherise, clojure is perfectly adequate.

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